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     1  ---
     2  page_title: Automatic OS Installs
     3  description: |-
     4    Learn how to use preseed, kickstart, and autounattend files to automatically
     5    answer installation questions and enable Packer to connect to your instance.
     6  ---
     7  
     8  # Automatic OS Installs
     9  
    10  If you are building from a brand-new and unconfigured operating system
    11  image, Packer will need you to perform the operating system install before it
    12  can connect to and configure your image using its provisioners. Most operating
    13  system distributions have a mechanism for performing the normally-interactive
    14  installation in an automated way. For Debian operating systems, this is done
    15  using a preseed file; for Windows, it's done using an Autounattend.xml. We have
    16  compiled some simple guides here for common operating system distributions.
    17  
    18  These guides are meant to give you a quick introduction to how to use automated
    19  installation answer files in order to perfom those installs; we don't mean to
    20  be a comprehensive guide on each operating system, but we hope to give you
    21  enough context to be able to more easily find any further information you need.
    22  
    23  Refer to the instructions for your operating system.